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Summary: I can't see how anyone can not be influenced by this book
Review: This is ironic given the title of my review, but if you keep an open-mind you'll be eye-shocked by the things you'll see. It's amazing what this is doing to our environment, and our ecosystem all the way down to the little cells in our bodies--everything is affected by the way you eat. Your health can be determined entirely by little things that you may not notice. For example, the way that slaughterhouse animals are treated may cause you to eat things that are inhumane. You may also be affected by scientific facts that are startling: Soybeans that are genetically engineered actually inhibit protein generated by the soybeans themselves! You have to read this book if you care about the truth about the way that we live in and look at our world.
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Summary: Read this if you are interested in fixing our planet!
Review: This book should be required reading for middle school students in the US! The connection between livestock and factory farming to our environment and the devastation it causes is absolutely too significant to ignore. If you are a true environmentalist and human being with even a sliver of compassion and intelligence, this book will effect you profoundly. Did you know that not eating one pound of meat could save more water than not taking a shower for six months?! Did you also know that more than half of the land in the Midwest is used for cattle grazing which causes EXTREME environmental havoc on our ecosystem? Did you also know that the tax payers pay for this destruction? These are just a few of the points that are brought up in this book. It is a well researched and thought provoking work. Robbins, the ex-heir to the Baskin and Robbins ice cream chain tells the whole story here. I would also recommend his older book, Diet For A New America.
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Summary: WOW
Review: I think it would be wrong if I didn't take the chance to let people know that this is by far the most important book I have read. I feel that after reading what John Robbins has shared with people that I can no longer look at any aspect of food the same again. I really don't think any one person could read this book and not think about what they eat and even change one aspect of their eating habits. I would suggest this to ANYONE! Amazing read.
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Summary: Unputdownable
Review: This book is such an eye opener. A really amazing read that is so hard to put down. I was a dedicated meat eater but since reading this book, I am adopting a vegetarian diet, the arguments that John Robbins puts forward for doing so - personal health, animal welfare and environmental concerns - are so telling it seems stupid not to.
Read this book and if you take in only a portion of his ideas you will be on track to better health and together we can help save the planet. Yes, we really do have that much power with our food choices.
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Summary: An Extremely Important Book!
Review: This is not just a book promoting Vegan diet (which it does, quite powerfully), but a well-researched, well-written expose of the dangers we face from large-scale "factory farms" and government subsidies of the meat industry. Robbins brings it home with many personal stories.Most importantly, Robbins backs up his claims with verifiable facts AND references-- lacking in many "scientific" books. As a physician and former molecular biologist, I can affrim that his scientific claims ARE correct. As a vegetarian for the past ten years, I can state that Robbins clearly posits the many reasons why people make this choice-- and why everyone will be better off if more people do so.
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Summary: Life Changing Perspective Flipper
Review: I literally read the entire book in one sitting-some three hundred and eighty pages, which for me was an all time record. This is much more compelling than any ficticous thriller-ITS ALL REAL PEOPLE and its like an overpowering blast of fresh air, so pure in times of guck and media frenzied goober frenzy. The book is so clear, its like crystal; its so well stated, I am deeply impressed with Robbins powerful command of the written word; the points are so well presented, there is no denying, without sounding completely irrational, the power and truth of his statements. It is a beautiful, empowering, poetical statement of love to the world and how we are not impotent, but are capable of changing the very world through the embracement of simple and rational ethical standards based on empirical truths and factual statistics from reliable sources on the state of the world today. I could not recommend it higher. I wish everyone I love, and even those I don't, would read this book and possible, change their lives and the very worlds itself.
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Summary: It's Time to Wake Up!
Review: You absolutely MUST read this powerful, thought provoking book and then get all of your friends and family members to read it too. The chapters on factory farming and the unspeakable, sad lives of factory farm animals are horrifying. The chapters on agricultural genetic engineering are terrifying. Through it all, though, John Robbins does not try to make us all feel guilty about eating meat. He simply presents the facts (with tons of references) and lets us make up our own minds. Well, I've made mine up. I've been going along, vaguely aware that the meat on my plate came from a living creature but I had no idea (and honestly didn't want to think about it) how cruelly these creatures were treated and how contaminated they were with chemicals and other substances most people would never ever dream of eating. Mr. Robbins explains in exceptional detail how a plant-based diet can provide us with all of our nutritional needs as well as allow us to show kindness to our environment and our fellow creatures.
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Summary: Opened my eyes to the power of my eating habits
Review: To begin with this book was incredible in a the aspect that it covered numerous food topics which allows for a reader to grasp the issues at hand concerning the foods we eat. It is incredibly well written, and is easy to understand, and although it is a large book it was hard for me to put down. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in opening their eyes to what they eat and how to help. This book is hard hitting and is the needed truth for the public---!!!
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Summary: Positively Change the Way You View Food
Review: A must read for those who like to think they make "informed" choices and decisions. If you're unfamiliar with John Robbins, you can't afford not to know who he is and what he's dedicated his life to advocate. Each person can make a difference in the world. Start by reading "Food Revolution" and it will positively change the way you view food, and hopefully change (revolutionize) your food choices in the future.
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Summary: The Food Bible
Review: This is the most essential book about food to date. That said, it is not a detailed dietary plan. Rather, it is an environmental manifesto, a factory farm expose, and the most up-to-date and scientifically sound presentation of.... 1) the health benefits of a plant-based diet; 2) the pitfalls of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food and the biotech industry in general; 3) the underlying dietary and environmental causes of cancer; 4) the threat of food-borne illness and how it can be avoided; 5) the most humane solution to world hunger; 6) and the billions of dollars worth of PR lies the public is fed to counter the truth that might set us free. This book absolutely blew me away. John Robbins earns full marks in terms of his passion to social justice, his unbridaled commitment to quality scientific evidence, and highly-readable, compassionate, and straight-forward writing style. In every sense of the term, he has earned the title of "food prophet". ~A glObal Top 10 Book~
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